Project Name: Pueblo Alto & Mile Hi Neighborhoods GSI Pilot Project
Client: City of Albuquerque
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Year: 2021-2025

Albuquerque’s first neighborhood-scale green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is nearing construction in the Pueblo Alto and Mile Hi neighborhoods. These neighborhoods regularly experience problematic flooding issues primarily caused by an inadequately sized storm drain system. Anthropopulus team members have been assisting the project engineer with community outreach and landscape architecture for this important pilot project since 2021. GSI interventions include stormwater bumpouts, with additional holding capacity increased by an underground detention system. The intensive community outreach process has included development of a project website with interactive crowd-source maps, green stormwater infrastructure resources, and project updates, outreach committee meetings, walking tours, surveys, public meetings, and a chalk mock-up event. This project will inform next steps for one or more pilot projects that will help reduce the impact of flooding while providing additional benefits such as traffic calming, increased tree canopy, and urban wildlife biodiversity. Visit the project website.